Re: [squid-users] Problem with Dotless IP Address

From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 16:14:36 -0800 (PST)

wrong. rfc 1738 specifies that url's may contain a fully qualified domain
name or dotted quads. hex octal or dword representations of ip addresses
are valid in dns but not in url's...

joelja

 On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Muhammad Naeem
wrote:

> Yes you are right , but i have read some where that if
> you can resolve the dotless ip address from your
> machine then Squid has no objection of accessing it
> because it uses the same Resolver libraries.
>
> There must be a way of doing it.
>
> Regards
> Naeem
>
> --- Robert Collins <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>
> wrote:
> > Dotless ip's are not valid for HTTP URL's. Squid
> > therefore prevents the
> > use of dotless ip's.
> >
> > Rob
> >
>
>
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